Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
HERMANN HESSEThe bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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The river is everywhere.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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